
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 06:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: linda.robertson@enron.com
To: steven.kean@enron.com, richard.shapiro@enron.com, james.steffes@enron.com,
sarah.novosel@enron.com, tom.briggs@enron.com
Subject: DOE legislative language

As folks know, I am sending our suggested legislative language to DOE this
afternoon,  The package you were asked to review contained legislative
language making RTO participation mandatory.  After further discussions with
Tom Briggs, I am not sending the mandatory RTO language as a part of our
package.  My concern with sending it as legislative language is that this
would muddy the waters on our open access rulemaking (a draft of which we are
getting this Friday from Watkiss and which we plan to transmit to DOE next
week).  FERC has existing authority to make RTO participation mandatory.
Thus, instead of fighting out the issue in the legislative sphere, we should
reserve it for a possible rulemaking in open access.  We decided not to two
track open access, so I don't think we want to two track mandatory RTOs.  If
anyone disagrees with this strategy, we can send it first thing Thursday in
legislative form to DOE.

